John Rickard of Wild Waters Reports on 9.29.2016

Its been a special couple weeks for big rainbows, there were days when they took over the feeding lanes and finding normal size trout was rare. It is special to see some big bows like these. We’ve had great success swinging, stripping, nymphing, and even some on the big dry. There are not a lot of hatches right now but the anticipation of the great...

Matt Gilligan Koles Reports on 9.29.2016

So long summer. We had a good water year once again, and fishing was just like every other good summer before. If you made your way out to fish with me, thanks.

Flows have been steadily dropping since the first week of Sept, and now we are at about 120 cfs in the Hirsch, and 140 near stateline, on the Truckee River. Not a lot of meat on the bone in most of...

Ryan Johnson Reports on 9.29.2016

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Dave Neal reports 9.29.2016 

Autumnal Equinox has arrived and thus marks a special time of year to be excited about fly fishing in Northern California. There’s fall color popping at the higher elevations and salmon & steelhead entering our longer river systems at the lower elevations.

Evenings are noticeably cooling off and the mornings at sunrise are now chilly enough to warrant that cotton hoody...

Steve Santucci Reports on 9.29.2016

San Francisco Bay, Napa River, and the California Delta are all fishing pretty well. Each week new fish are moving into the Delta following schools of threadfin shad as they migrate to each end of the Delta. This is the best time to catch your Stripers on topwater. Have seen many pods of boiling Stripers . It’s that time of year when you can fish to fall run fish...

Chuck Volckhausen of Wild Waters Fly Fishing Reports on 9.29.2106

Outlook for the the Klamath river steelhead season is pretty good. Fish were fairly grabby and often happy to jump and shake the hook. Water temps above the mouth of the Trinity were between 61 and 64 degrees near the surface in the riffle, on the 4 occasions I checked, which were all mid morning. Salmon are spread throughout the...

Brian Clemen’s Reports on 9.29.2016

Over the past few weeks, the fish in Nor Cal has really turned on. The salmon are showing up in good numbers, some are starting to spawn and you know what that means, “EGG BITE TIME”. With cooler temps to come, the fishing will only get better, hard to believe as the fishing is pretty darn good right now.

Feather River

• Rating: Good to Great
  
• Flow: 800cfs in Low Flow
  
• T...

Jim Andras Reports on 9.29.2016

The Rogue continues to fish well. Flows have leveled off around 1200cfs and looks like we’re in for a drastic cool down over the weekend with possible rain in the mix. Starting to see the first fall color this week and steelhead continue to move into the upper river. October and November are great months to fish the Rogue and recent cancellations opened up October...

Jim and Rachel Andras report 9.8.2016

ROGUE RIVER  "The river and this gamefish (steelhead) are so nearly synonymous, so easily define each other, that the blending of mystiques has produced an image more powerful here than on any other American river.“ - Trey Combs Steelhead Fly Fishing

We’ve been seeing some nice fish around and loving these fall days on the Rogue. The river is on the drop and our...

Jim Stimson Reports on 9.8.2016

Gone are the sweaty nights sleeping with the windows open, no covers, under the sweeping drone of a ceiling fan. The morning temps are starting to dip into the 30’s, fall is in the air. Squirrels are busy caching away food for the dark days of winter, the bears in town are getting that sleepy, uncoordinated swagger in their gait as the urge to hibernate starts to...